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QTUBE CAFE POWER OF PLAY SESSION, 24TH AUGUST 2017

Every last Thursday of the month, Toybank
conducts a Power of Play session for our volunteers at QTube Café. The latest
session was held on August 24, 2017. A total of 11 people attended this session
and it was a blast. We started with an ice-breaking session and continued onto
games and other activities. After the session we took our time to gather feedback
and experience stories from some of the attendees. Today we would like to share
their experience with you along with the details of the session.

The first activity conducted by our
volunteer manager is called ‘If cards’. It is a game, where a person poses an
‘If’ question to the players and in turn, the players come up with answers. We
came across all kinds of amazing answers and by the end of the activity,
everyone was much more relaxed and open to share the next few hours of playtime
with each other.

The play session included lots of fun games
but the crowd favourites came out to be board games, jenga, trio-vision and
spy-sight. The show stopper of the session was the game of ‘COUP’: players
bluffed to survive till the end to win the game. It was an amazing, fun-filled
experience for us, and we feel our volunteers thought so too.

Here are some experiences as shared by
them:

“The
play session conducted by Toybank at Qtube was rejuvenating. It was an ice
breaker for the staff and volunteers.

Playing
board games after a long time reminded one of the childhood days, which made me
realize how play is important when you are a child, and how it is a crucial
part of our childhood.

The
initiative taken by Toybank for keeping sessions for the volunteers is
appreciated.”

-Aishwarya
Abraham

“When
I came for the session I didn't think that it would be such an amazing
experience for me! To be very frank I am kind of person who is not really
involved in playing such board games and all.... but trust me from the moment
the session started and it ended I was really enjoying myself!

And I
think playing such games and enjoying yourself also helps to ease up your mind
and it also sharps your mind! It also gave me an opportunity to interact with
diverse personality :)

Thank
you so much Toybank for granting me this opportunity to be the part of this
power session.”

-Shraddha
Makwana

“The
Power of game was amazing. Got to meet lot of new people and through games came
to know a lot about them and well a bind was created rather easily. Came to
know a lot about myself.

Umm
according to me there should also be a group game like UNO, where everyone will
be involved and it would also be fun. Along with the other board games though

Toybank, an initiative under The Opentree Foundation, is an organization in India that promotes the Right to Play for all children, because a happy childhood defines almost every aspect of a child’s life and in turn the society. Founded in August 2004, our motto is to provide every economically-disadvantaged child an equal opportunity to education, achieved through healthy play and games.
As of January 2018, Toybank has set up 276 Play Centers and impacts the lives of 43,009 at-risk children every day.